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Article: Crucifixion, NOT fiction.
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- Catholic Insight
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- April 1, 2003
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Christ's Passion is not just a topic for re-affirmation at Easter. Books denying it appear at all seasons. They are part of the campaign to disprove the earthly existence of Christ, something I refuted in my 'No Earthly Reason To Disbelieve' in Christian Courier, Nov. 13, 1998.
In that supreme Sixties silliness, The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross, John Allegro alleged that the crucifixion was merely a phallic symbol used by his supposed mushroom cultists--more an Allegro phallusy than Christian fallacy, I fancy. Now, thirty-something years on (1999), we have a cognate absurdity, The Christ Conspiracy, by an understandably obscure figure known only as Acharya S, in ...